being cut, except in Maine ; tobacco curing finely ; ground 

 in good condition for ploughing and seeding. 



Week ending SejJtember 26. — New England. Boston: 

 Weather generally fair ; freeze on 22d, coldest ever known at 

 this season, in places temperature below 20° ; all corn, vege- 

 tables and cranberries not harvested killed, much loss in 

 these crops ; apples little injured, picking will soon begin; 

 potatoes being dug, little rot in Maine and New Hampshire, 

 continue rotting elsewhere ; fall pasturage good ; much 

 ploughing being done. 



Weather of September, 1904. 

 The weather of the month was marked by conditions that 

 approached the extremes in several of the elements. Dur- 

 ing the first decade there was very little rain, the combined 

 amount of the several showers being only sufScient to 

 moisten the surface of the ground. On the 14th and 15th 

 there was a downpour that has been but seldom equalled, and 

 probably not exceeded in many years. From the 16th to 

 the 24th inclusive there was almost an entire absence of rain 

 throughout the State, and the fall during the remainder of 

 the month was light and scattered. The month will go on 

 record as one of unusually few rainy days, with abundant 

 sunshine, but with a heavy total rainfall. The large pre- 

 cipitation of the month was, of course, the result of a single 

 heavy storm, the 14th and 15th, which was the chief mete- 

 orological feature during the period. During this storm the 

 winds along the coast reached hurricane force and shipping 

 suflered great loss, as did also nuftierous other interests. 

 While the temperature records of September do not present 

 abnormalities so marked as those of precipitation, they show 

 pronounced extremes. The maxima ranged in the 80s on a 

 number of days, with muggy, oppressive atmosphere, and 

 on the 2 2d and 23d it dropped suddenly to points ranging 

 slightly above freezing in some sections to several degrees 

 below in others. In some of the lowlands, with other con- 

 ditions favorable, reliable reports placed the mercury as low 

 as 20^ above zero. At Boston, according to the ofiicial 

 observations the minimum temperatiu^e, 35°, on the two 



